Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 15

Initiator Creator - Issue #15

​By Saurabh Y. // 16 May 2020

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Developer

​Deno 1.0 - A Better Alternative Of NodeJS By The Same Inventor​

Deno is a new runtime for executing JavaScript and TypeScript outside of the web browser. Deno attempts to provide a standalone tool for quickly scripting complex functionality. Deno is (and always will be) a single executable file. Like a web browser, it knows how to fetch external code. In Deno, a single file can define arbitrarily complex behavior without any other tooling.

​Rebuilding Our Tech Stack For A New Facebook.com​

Starting from the ground up with a client-first app brought a new set of problems. We needed to rebuild the site quickly while also addressing speed and other user experience issues — and we needed to do it in such a way that it would be sustainable for years to come.

​Diagram as Code​

Diagrams lets you draw the cloud system architecture in Python code.It was born for prototyping a new system architecture without any design tools. You can also describe or visualize the existing system architecture as well.

​React.js Developer RoadMap​

A chart demonstrating the paths that you can take and the libraries that you would want to learn to become a React developer.

​Serverless-Dev-Tools: Open Source Dev Tools For The Serverless World​

sls-dev-tools improves the Developer-Experience (DX) of building state-of-the-art Serverless applications. This open-source tool enables you to make intelligent decisions while developing and debugging, directly in your terminal.

Designer

​How Fluent UI Unlocks the Next Generation of Microsoft 365 Experiences​

" We’re simplifying our developer ecosystem, so that all sorts of partners can leverage and contribute to these frameworks to build their own experiences." - Benedikt Lehnert, Microsoft Design.

​Blush, Illustrations for everyone​

A nice illustration generator plugin for Figma with a lot of interesting options for characters and more

​UX Design Methods In A Mind Map​

Why bother to make a map? The answer is to connect the dots systematically. In our daily designer lives, we practice many methods and skills — some are useful but some aren’t. We need a ‘when to use what’ guide on paper. And a mind map exercise can help. It also gives an overview of all the methods needed throughout the design process.

​Must have Chrome extensions for designers​

8 Chrome extensions to curate, share and create designs online.

Entrepreneur

​Communication with customers: what specific skills your agents should utilize on each support channel​

Great customer service is much more than just responding to social media comments or picking up the phone every time it rings. There are other must-have skills and traits such as empathy, being approachable, or the ability to “read” emotions that all agents should have.

​Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction​

I learned the hard way how important a carefully designed sign-up process is. I saw a large percentage of interested people fail to sign up because of easily preventable flaws in the flow. Two lessons in particular stand out

​A Founder’s Guide to Startup Boards​

Everything Startup Founders Need to Know About Setting-Up a Board and Running Board Meetings

​Product Validation 101​

One thing that did happen throughout this quest is that we got really good at the process of validating (and mostly invalidating) product ideas.

Marketer

​Your Marketing Know-How, Augmented: Introducing Conversion Intelligence​

We all know that optimizing for the highest conversion rate is vital, but the act of actually improving campaigns often takes a back seat.

​How Drift’s Blog Helped Them Build a Multi-Million Dollar Brand​

The company was able to differentiate itself by focusing on brand before everything else. In their book This Won’t Scale, Drift’s marketing team talks about how their first task was to build a brand. That’s not something that many companies try to do right off the bat.

​8 steps to strengthen your newsletter strategy​

Based on an analysis of more than 20 newsletters (including several COVID-19 focused products), here are eight recommendations to slay your newsletter strategy.

Interesting Read

​Mozilla goes full incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup lab and early-stage investments​

After testing the waters this spring with its incubator-esque MVP Lab, Mozilla is doubling down on the effort with a formal program dangling $75,000 investments in front of early-stage companies.

​If Elon were your dad, what would your name be?​

It was cool to deconstruct how Elon named his new baby and turn it into a set of rules that apply to any name.

Outro

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